Abstract
The status of bulk-GaAs etalons and their application to high-speed optical logic will be summarized. Several characteristics are of particular importance: time to make a logic decision ("switch-on time"), time required for the device to recover and be ready to make the next decision (recovery time), energy required per logic decision (switching energy), ability to switch the next device (cascadability) or perhaps several devices (fanout), etc.
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